'Snitch' sneaks depth into preposterous story

8:25 PM,
Feb. 20, 2013

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars in 'Snitch.'

Written by

Barbara VanDenburgh
| The Arizona Republic

"Snitch" is the sort of film that opens with an "inspired by true events" disclaimer, in this case included less in the interest of accuracy and effective storytelling and more in the interest of making the ridiculous story to come easier for audiences to swallow.

Still, for all its lunkheadedness, "Snitch" is a shockingly deeper, less action-oriented affair than one would expect of a movie directed by a former stuntman, Ric Roman Waugh, and starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, a onetime fixture of the professional wrestling world.